Ubuntu 10.04 Panel Volume Control and other annoyances

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on our main home computer (wife and kids use it), and Lucid Lynx s LTS which means it should (in theory) be updateable for a long period of time without those nasty 6-monthly dist-upgrade surprises. Little annoyances Apart from having window maximize/minimize/close buttons on the left, having to add [...]

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Ubuntu Slowdown – Dual Boot Loses Swap UUID [Fix]

// This was reported as an issue before when dual-booting Ubuntu with another distro. Basically the Swap UUID Doesn’t get updated in /etc/fstab when another distro is installed on another partition. I installed Fedora for a test run on a spare partition, with Grub being installed to MBR. Later after an Ubuntu update, which included [...]

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Linux – Slow Internet Browsing

Slow Internet Support Posts It appears that there have been a few posts on Linux support forums regarding a slow internet connection. There are several reasons that this could occur and possibly hundreds of fixes ranging from: Poor Hardware (Nic card, Router, Cables) Incorrect Drivers Misconfigured Network Settings (DNS, IP Address, Hosts file etc) The [...]

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